Keraḻamāhātmya

Collection: whishcollection; royalasiaticsociety; palmleafmanuscripts; europeanlibraries

Digitizing sponsor: Kahle/Austin Foundation

Contributor: The Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland

Language: Sanskrit

Palm leaf; generally 7 lines on a folio.

Manuscript consists of the text of the Keraḻamāhātmya from the Bhūgoḻa-purāṇa.

Text begins: lakṣmīgrāme samāgatya bhagavān bhṛgunandanaḥ grāmāṇīn kalpayām āsa tasmin saptadaśa dvijān kañcidvijaṃ dvijeṣv atra āṃgīrānvayam eva ca kṣetrakāryāya rāmas tu lakṣmīśasyālaye nṛpa, etc.

F.6b: iti śrībhūgoḻapurāṇe keraḻamāhātmye addhyāyaḥ ||

F.39b: iti śrībhūgoḻapurāṇe pañcāśoddhyāyaḥ ||

F.50b: iti śrībhūgoḻapurāṇe keraḻamāhātmye garggayudhiṣṭhirasaṃvāde addhyāyaḥ ||

F.92: iti keraḻotbhave niḻānadīmāhātmye pañcamoddhyāyaḥ || ||

F.131b: iti śrībhūgoḻapurāṇe umāmaheśvarasaṃvāde keraḻamāhātmye saṃkṣepo nāma prathamoddhyāyaḥ ||

F.155: its agastyasaṃhitāyāṃ keraḻotbhave ikṣunadīmāhātmye pañcapañcāśodhyāyaḥ ||

It ends: iti keraḻotbhave sthaleśamāhātmye catuṣṣaṣtiśśatatamodhyāyaḥ || śubhaṃ bhavatu ||

South Indian Sanskrit / Whish Manuscript Collection.

See ’A catalogue of South Indian Sanskrit manuscripts (especially those of the Whish Collection) belonging to the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland’ by M. Winternitz, with an appendix by F. W. Thomas (London: RAS, 1902) p.204. Go to http://tinyurl.com/j3tkdwj for a digital copy of this catalogue.

J. L. Whish, gift of manuscripts collected by his brother C. M. Whish, July 1836.

Text in Sanskrit; Malayalam script.